Tag archive for Lamb of God

Reality has caught up to me. I originally set my goal for Le Suite Gesu at 10 prints a year. I got 15 done in the first year, but nothing since last November. Now I’m back at it, and with a more reasonable goal. Since…

I’m close to an artist proof with this one. I guess I’ll wait a day or so to decide. The paper is soaked and ready for an edition. My thing now is I kind of like this. I know I’m sending Scourging at the Pillar to a…

I thought I’d really messed this up. The proofs were coming out part ghostly and some lines were popping out and didn’t belong and I don’t know what. But I went and redrew almost everything and etched it again. Now it works. The engraving I…

I’ve been working towards this very dark, worked image since I started this print. Now I probably just use scraping, burnishing, and polishing to finish it up. The nose is really projecting…finally. I’ve got it modeled and the old chiaroscuro is beginning to work. I…

There is absolutely no way to copy, line-for-line, a pencil drawing onto copper and make it work. I never found a way, and in any case, I have the pencil drawing. So I’m building this one up layer by layer of marks at different depths….

Wow, I slept until 10:30 Saturday! Pooped from so much work, both from the day job, night job, and three major studies in two weeks. But things are coming together as I get frayed at the edges. Har har. Today I got the Crowning with Thorns needle…

I’ve upped the ante. Something is taking off here, ascending, if I may be so bold. Of course, I’m inspired. I’ve answered Barnett Newman’s question “What do you paint?” My subject matter is not neutral, as Cezanne’s was. I can’t project my intentions onto a…

May is the month for Mary, the Mother of God. I will this month begin an Assumption of Mary that will be released on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption. The studies and progress can be followed on this blog. I am working randomly through the…

Today, as I write this, is the feast day of St. Catherine of Siena. She is one of my favorite saints, because she spoke to God as a friend. We should all seek to be a friend of God. I began this Carrying of the Cross as…

Today Pope John XIII and Pope John Paul II are canonized. They were already saints, forged in the lives they both led. Lives of holiness and an openness to the Spirit of God. I was at a marriage retreat in March, and as we were…